<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 God can't use anything that's afraid. You know, Gideon had to send them all back was scared. And if you're afraid to testify of your healing before it comes, God can't use you. If you're afraid to tell the people you've received the Holy Ghost, don't worry, I doubt whether you ever get it or not. See? God wants heroes. He wants something that's brave. God wants something that'll stand up and talk, that's not a scared to tell your boss or anyone else, "Jesus Christ the Son of God has saved me from a life of sin."

L-29 So I seen the bravery in the eagle, and I thought, "Well now, what makes him brave?" And I looked at him, and he... I said, "Say, fellow, do you know I could shoot you?" That didn't seem to bother him. He looked over at me, looked back at the pine squirrel. He wasn't bothered a bit. And I thought, "Well, why--why is he so sure of himself?" That's the way I want to be, sure of myself, know what I'm talking about. All Christians has got a right to do that. You can be when you take God's Word.
So I thought, "What makes you so sure?" And I noticed he kept taking those big wings and feeling--you know how they do with their wings, kinda like feeling their feathers, see if they're all in good condition.
Oh, someone said to me, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid you'll make a mistake in that discernment?" Oh, no. God gave that eagle wings to know that that was what he could get away with. And as long as I can feel the Holy Spirit around me, I'm not scared. But when He goes away from me, I'll get off the platform. But as long as I know that He's there...

L-30 And the old eagle kept moving his feathers back and forth. I said, "That's it. God gave you two wings and you got confidence in them. You've got confidence to know that before I could reach and get that rifle you could be in them treetops there and I'd never see you no more."
He had confidence. Well, if a eagle has confidence in his wings to get out of danger... God gave him the wings, they're God given gifts. The chipmunk didn't have no wings, or the ground squirrel, pine squirrel, rather. He didn't have wings. But the eagle had wings. The chipmunk was so excited he was jumping all around; he didn't know what to take place. But the eagle wasn't excited, because God gave him something. And if God give eagle wings to get away from danger, and can feel that satisfied about it, how much more ought the Church of the living God with the baptism of the Holy Ghost around them to get away from danger.

L-31 I watched them, big fellow. Finally he got sick and tired; he knowed I was his buddy. But he got sick and tired of that "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter." You know what he did? He just made one big jump, flopped his wings about twice, and he was up in--out of the timber. And then he just seemed to know how to set those big wings. He never flopped one more time. But he knowed just how to set those wings. Every time a air wave would come in, he'd ride up with it. And then another air wave come in; he'd ride up with it, never move a feather. He knowed just how to set his wings.
I watched him until he got smaller, smaller, until he become just a little bitty speck. I raised up my hands and screamed out to God, "Oh, that's it, Lord. It isn't flop, flop to this meeting, flop, flop to this church, and take your letter from the Methodist to the Baptist. It's just knowing how to set your wings of faith in the power of the Holy Ghost, and when It comes in ride up with It.


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